We spent two weeks talking about language and history and how that creates our perception of who we are. If you run across this video and it’s not really making a whole lot of sense, it’s because it’s part of a full series of how Nonduality and Native spirituality intersect. So, go through the free course on Native Wisdom and Nonduality on this site, and you could see it all in order. But know that the idea of who we are has been given to us by our society since birth. It’s been given to us in the language of our birth and it’s been given to us through the constant stories that we hear about who we are as human beings and who we are as an individual, even the fact that we are an individual is something that has been told to us. It’s not necessarily our true nature.
– Short Circuiting the Dysfunction –
The reason I’m doing the series on nonduality and Native history is because I want to short-circuit the dysfunction that our language and our history has given us. One of the easiest ways to do that is to point out other cultures where this dysfunction has not created the society, and most importantly, the fact that human beings lived without this dysfunction for a really long time. The hope is, and why it fits in with nonduality, is that understanding more about who we are as human beings should help us stop and go to that place of enlightenment that we’re looking for, especially when we understand that this is our natural human state.